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Emperor , 3 days ago to homeassistant in My friends and family don't understand why I'm so happy with my air fryer notification.

I have also since this post purchased MMwave sensors. But they’re worse for picking up the cats.

You can fine tune some and the Aqara FP2 seems to do a good job ignoring pets.

Emperor , 4 days ago to homeassistant in My friends and family don't understand why I'm so happy with my air fryer notification.

I ended up making binary sensors for each room in Node Red. Did I leave the room? Who else is there, nobody? Ok mark it clear…

Why not use mmWave presence sensors?

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women

And being antifeminist doesn’t even benefit them that much.

The only people benefitting are those peddling the lies to disgruntled young men, partly as a grift and partly as misdirection from the real sources of their issues.

But at the same time I don’t see how much people who are not cis men can do so much to really help them.

And it shouldn't be your job to fix young men but I am as stumped as you and I worry about people like my nephew who is early teens.

There's !mensliberation but I don't know if that's not just preaching to the converted.

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women

My point was that cishet men may have it hard to find someone because they are not catching up with progressive and emancipatory values.

It's worse than that - things seem to be regressing, with a widening political divide between men and women, especially noticeable in the younger adults.

It definitely feels like the modest progress that was made is now being eroded away

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women

Really the only trick they missed was turning it into a pyramid scheme but that might sneak in if you use the app a lot, although imagine the "success rate" on this is abysmal and a lot of users will drop out quickly.

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women

If you are an open-minded cis dude who respects women and sees them as equal human beings you’ll have no problem finding anyone.

It's not always that simple. For example, I cared for my Dad 24/7 which involved a convoluted pill regime (and a series of alarms throughout the day). My social life took a real hit. There are also mental and physical health issues, as well as financial aspects.

All that said, anyone thinking this is the solution deserves to be scammed because it is hardly informed consent.

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads

I read somewhere that the largest class of jobs in half the US states was truck driver and it's high in most other places (that article says 600k). They are likely to be the first sector almost wiped out by AI, followed by call centre workers and a lot of the legal profession. Good luck reskilling all those people. Here in the UK, call centres were often opened in areas of low employment, so we'll see a lot of the already decimated old industrial areas hollowed out.

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women

This seems to be sleazy conmen faking interactions with women to convince wannabe pick-up artists to pay for their app. It's like some new circle of Hell.

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads

“If you’re driving a truck today,” he said, “my expectation is you’re going to be able to retire driving a truck.”

Probably true as it will take a while for them to ramp the numbers up to cover the shortage in truck drivers, and they'll still need drivers for that last mile (as these trucks work best going between depots on freeways) but how long will being a truck driver be a viable occupation? When it's one of the biggest areas of employment, can everyone transition to other logistical jobs, as suggested by the article?

Emperor , 1 month ago to Fediverse in Some ideals for fediverse platform design

Realistically, platforms on the fedi are much closer in design to their commercial conterparts than one would hope for if your goal was community building and situating the process of digital/online community building within the community themselves.

It's still relatively early days yet. A lot of Fediverse services mimic commercial ones because it makes it an easier pitch to people "it's like that but open and privacy-respecting". Hopefully, as they mature they'll evolve away from this. In addition, now more people are comfortable with the Fediverse they'll start to create new and unique platforms.

Emperor OP , 1 month ago to New Communities in Sleep paralysis

Yes, I should spread the love a bit more but currently only have a l.w alt. If a film focused instance started, I'd probably move some communities off here to there, as long as I was sure it was here to stay (the last one went down when the person running it disappeared).

Emperor , 1 month ago to Technology in You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

I'll take that and raise you a wifi9.

Emperor OP , 1 month ago to New Communities in Sleep paralysis

Cheers. 👍

Emperor OP , 1 month ago to New Communities in Sleep paralysis

Fait question, as I am an Admin on feddit.uk.

My thinking is that I try and keep the communities I start on feddit.uk to UK specific ones or ones that have a UK angle. If it's more general, like sleep paralysis, I will put it on lemmy.world as the largest general instance (for example: !categoryiii). If it was on a specific topic I might fish round for an instance that covers the topic (no film or Star Wars instances are holding me back from that at the moment).

Emperor , 1 month ago to New Communities in Genealogy - Lemmy.World the recently revived community

!genealogy